Day: April 1, 2017

Encouraging Homeschoolers To Become Entrepreneurs

Wendy Wilson

  Rhea Perry beamed as she related the success stories of an organic farmer, a videographer, a horse trainer and a coach to Amazon sellers. Their stories are all the more bright because they achieved their success as pre-teens and teens, said Perry, who spoke Friday at a homeschool convention in Nashville. Perry led a session on entrepreneurship at the Teach Them Diligently convention being held this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. Perry has her own business, Educating for Success, Inc. in Lexington, Alabama, that helps homeschooling parents and students start their own businesses. Perry encouraged parents at her session Friday to help their children develop an entrepreneurial spirit. She advised allowing children to be involved in setting their schedules and choosing their books. She also emphasized the importance of ensuring that children become independent at completing chores. When parents manage everything for their children and do everything for them, they won’t develop the self-reliance and motivation they need to become good entrepreneurs, Perry said. Children who are creative and curious and show a knack for leadership by the questions they ask should be treated carefully “so you don’t break their spirit,” Perry said. That’s too often what happens…

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Lamplighter Offers Entertainment and Moral Instruction All In One at Nashville Homeschool Convention

Wendy Wilson
Tennessee Star

It’s hard to imagine Mark Hamby sitting still long enough to read a book. On Friday, he zipped around energetically at a Nashville homeschool convention to drum up enthusiasm for his business, dashing from one person to the next to strike up a conversation. Sure enough, he confessed to not liking books when he was a kid. “I used to hate to read,” he said. “Reading and I didn’t go together.” That makes it all the more interesting that his business is books. More than 20 years ago, he started Lamplighter, which publishes out-of-print novels from the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s. His booth at the Teach Them Diligently convention being held this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center is piled high with them. “Every book we publish has to personally captivate me,” he said. “They must be something that will have kids on the edge of their seats.” They also must teach moral lessons and draw readers to Christ, said Gamby, who developed a hunger for great Christian literature when he became a Christian at age 22. He looks for books that have strong themes of endurance, faith, hope and love. The books he publishes were popular at the…

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Commentary: Priebus And Ryan Hijack President Trump’s Twitter Account

Tennessee Star Staff

ConservativeHQ.com Staff April 1, 2017 Make no mistake about what went on Thursday with the shocking tweet in which President Trump appeared to attack members of the Freedom Caucus, some of his earliest and staunchest supporters in Congress. It is not about a policy difference over getting rid of Obamacare – it is about White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and his home state buddy House Speaker Paul Ryan saving their jobs. Priebus is clearly out of his depth as White House Chief of Staff. His only real qualification for the job is his relationship with Speaker Ryan and after the Ryancare debacle in which the President was drawn into supporting a bill something like 100 members of the House Republican Conference were prepared to vote against Priebus’ job was on the line. And it still is. Same with Ryan. When the Ryancare – or RINOcare bill as we prefer to call it – blew up Washington was abuzz with the rumor that Ryan was on his way out as Speaker. Republican officials in Congress and the White House were openly discussing finding a GOP replacement to Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House, after Ryan failed to pass…

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Vanderbilt Poll: Nashville a Blue City in a Red State; Majority of City’s Residents Disapprove of President Trump

Tennessee Star Staff

  A new Vanderbilt Poll confirms what most Tennesseans have known for years: Nashville is a far left island of Democratic blue surrounded by a sea of conservative Republican red. The majority of those surveyed in Davidson County (Nashville) disapprove of President Trump, including 51 percent of white voters. Disapproval among black and Hispanic respondents tops more than 70 percent. President Trump crushed Hillary Clinton in Tennessee in the November 2016 general election, winning the state’s eleven electoral college votes in a 61 percent to 35 percent blowout over the former Secretary of State. In Davidson County (Nashville), it was an entirely different matter. Hillary Clinton defeated President Trump in the urban center of Middle Tennessee by a 60 percent to 34 percent margin. “When you’re polling registered voters rather than likely voters, your results are going to skew left because you are polling a lot of people who are not informed and engaged enough to actually vote,” former Nashville radio talk show host and media consultant Steve Gill tells The Tennessee Star. “Taking that into account, the Vanderbilt Poll essentially reflects the election day results,” he adds. “The Vanderbilt Poll has spent a lot of money to confirm what most everybody…

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Faith: Verse of the Day for Saturday, April 1

Dana Hunsinger Gill
Tennessee Star - Verse of the Day

VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing April 1, Saturday 2 Timothy 4:3-4 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. Proverbs 1:22 How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

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